Quotes About Recognition

While it may be tempting to bask fully in the glory of success, remember: When a CEO takes too much credit for the good, they will receive far too much criticism for the bad.

If 10 people see my movie and all ten really love it, then that means a lot to me, rather than ten million people go and see it and most of them hate it.

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.'

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or stupidity - I'm not sure which.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.

Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet.

It's funny: what one tends to think of as the best work you've done is not what other people think is the best you've done.

I'm not good at very many things. The stuff I'm good at tends to be the stuff that people know me for.

TV tends to laud the person with the perfect one-liner rather than the one with the better idea.